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ionship, society, affection, relations and solace from his wife” as a result of the inju- ries, according to the suit. Don Bauder


Mayoral tells whopper on convention center Says hundreds of millions lost Mayor Kevin Faulconer sent an email April 7 promoting his plan for a ballot measure that would raise tourist taxes to provide money for fixing the streets (long overdue) and expanding the conven- tion center (unneeded cor- porate welfare). In his third paragraph,


Faulconer spewed a whopper: he bemoaned an alleged lack of convention space locally and claimed, “San Diego is losing out on hundreds of mil- lions of dollars every year” as conventions go elsewhere because of our lack of con- vention center space. Hun- dreds of millions? I sent Faulconer’s com-


ment to Heywood Sanders, professor at the University of Texas at San Antonio, and the nation’s expert on con- vention centers. His reply: “They all say the same thing: ‘lost business.’” Sanders authored a 2014


book, Convention Center Fol- lies, that details how cities have grossly overbuilt con- vention centers, causing prices to fall and centers to lose bushels of money. He wrote a seminal paper on


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center overbuilding for the Brookings Institution. Sanders points out that


convention centers are so overbuilt that in at least one instance, Los Angeles actually paid a convention to use the facilities. As pre- viously reported, Los Ange- les convention officials last year offered a fantastic deal to the American College of Chest Physicians.


Don Bauder


City pays for cars damaged by potholes


Over 520 requests for payments so far this year Since January 1, 2017, driv- ers in San Diego have submit- ted more than 520 claims to the city’s Risk Management Department seeking com- pensation for damage done to their cars as a result of running over potholes. City records provided to


the Reader show that dur- ing January 1 through April 5, the city paid $29,689 to resolve a total of 59 claims. Payout amounts ranged from $36.25 to $2342.43 in dam- ages. The vast majority of the payments were made for claims submitted in January, meaning the payments will likely continue. In February of this


year,wet winter storms wreaked havoc on already deteriorated city streets. During one particularly wet week in mid-January the city received 1300 pothole- related complaints. Dorian Hargrove


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close look at what matters to its citizens. Jason Douglas-Hiley Kensington


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“How Much Does It Cost to Settle a Refugee in San Diego?” Cover story Posted April 13 Thank you for this timely article. I have been to El Cajon to help and visit with these refugees. They are humble, grateful lovely people. I encourage you readers and others to also lend a hand. Go to the Facebook page on Second Families.


— Pat Burke


I see after leaving a shithole of a country where they had nothing, they come here and complain they wern’t given cash money or free medical help. We have enough of our own homebread welfare leeches who have made it a lifestyle choice handed down gener- ation ofter generation. We don’t need to import even more ungrateful people with their hand out. — Todd Gilbert


According to a Centers for Disease Control and Pre- vention study on the health of Iraqi refugees who set- tled in the United States


after 2009, 67 percent of adults are unemployed, including 85 percent of those over 45 years old. — Ponzi


I searched for it, and dis- covered that particular study first went online in 2013, so it’s a bit dated. Also, there’s this state- ment: “Disclaimer: The findings and conclusions in this report are those of the author(s) and do not neces- sarily represent the views of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.” So my advice is: Be careful what you quote, and always look at the original source (instead of what some blog reports).


— dwbat


This mainstream article a year says it all. OVER HALF of the 2 million IMMIGRANTS pouring into the USA every year are on the dole. That’s just the legal ones, not count- ing the 30 million+ illegals working the system. I have compassion for


refugees from war torn countries, especially if it’s the Zionist Neocon War machine (Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, soon to be Syria and Iran) that is pulling the trigger. But the U.S. can’t be the life raft for half the world or we will go down with the ship. Even under Saddam in


Iraq the Christians were a protected group. America is doing Israel’s dirty work (as usual) they are about extinct. Remember the infamous quote by Zion- ist jew Madeleine Albright: “500,000 Dead Iraqi Chil- dren Was Worth It.” Under Obama the level


of Muslim refugees, was at about 96%, which is quite obviously being used in Europe( now the U.S.) by Geroge soros, Rothschild family, to destroy the white European culture and cre- ate civil unrest, as if you resist your a racist. The game plan by the


New World Order? Destroy what’s left of the middle class and divide and con- quer the population with


race/culture wars which will the population easier to control when they pull the 666 trigger. It’s obviously working, as


I have my problems with Trump, especially now after Syria, and soon N Korea. but he does speak some common national- ism sense.


— Johnny Inferno


“Engineers’ Group Bullish on H-1B Reform” City Lights Posted April 13


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